Description:
The Madison Mountains of Montana are 45 miles long, featuring a fairly thick area of rugged peaks and rolling uplands that lie between the northwestern boundary of Yellowstone National Park to the east, the Madison River Valley on the west, and Big Sky and Bozeman to the northeast. The highest peak in the Madison Range is also the highest peak in Montana outside the Beartooth Range. Hilgard Peak measures at 11,316 feet, and appears as a sharp horn, a remnant of its active past of glaciation.